{"id":48736,"date":"2014-10-15T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f416283c517c6792aed00674600e1319"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:05:42","slug":"news-story-public-sector-strikes-15-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48736","title":{"rendered":"News story: Public sector strikes: 15 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Updated story with estimated figures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>During the strike, you may experience delays in accessing our face-to-face or telephone services. You can access many government services online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/\">GOV.UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I want to thank personally the overwhelming majority of dedicated civil servants \u2013 they didn\u2019t vote for today\u2019s strike action and they turned up for work as usual. I am consistently impressed by the public service ethos of our civil service. Whether it\u2019s Jobcentre workers getting more people into employment than ever before, or my officials helping to save \u00a314.3 billion from Whitehall last year, we all owe our civil service a huge debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">PCS\u2019s turnout figures are pure fiction. Our official returns show that 71,210 \u2013 or less than a third of PCS\u2019s inflated membership claims \u2013 took part in today\u2019s action. This is the lowest level of support ever recorded for a national PCS strike. Today, every Jobcentre opened, and with robust contingency arrangements in place, most public services operated as normal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We have always said it cannot be right that the lives of hardworking people are threatened with disruption by a union leadership who insist on strike action while relying on a weak and outdated mandate. PCS failed to persuade even a fifth of their members to back strike action. Worse still, their ballot was conducted over 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about the government response to the PCS union strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48782,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48736\/revisions\/48782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}